Attaching tool for sectional skid chain



C. FISCHER ATTACIK'IS'ING TOOL FOR SECTIONAL SKID CHAINS Oct, l, 1940.

` Filed Feb; 15, 1938 Patented Oct. 1, 1940 2,216,469 A'rrAcmNo Toor. ron sEo'rIoNAL snm CHAIN Charles Fischer, Newark, N. J. Application February 15, 1938, VSerial No. 190,563

1 Claim.

This invention relates to an attaching tool for sectional skid chain to facilitate the securing of a chain to an automobile wheel.

Modern automobiles are generally provided with disc wheels having very small orifices through which the tongue portion of the sectional chain may be passed. Usually the orifice is comparatively small, and considerable dimculty is experienced by the motorist in positioning the sectionalskid chain around the tire and passing the tongue portion through the disc wheel aperture and-latching the chain in-position. 'Ihe securing of sectional chains to a spoke wheel is likewise an awkward, untidy, time-consuming task.

The attaching tool of my invention may readily passed through an aperture or between the spokes of a wheel and over the top of the tire, so that the motorist need only secure the end link of the tongue portion of the chain to -the tool and then, bydrawing the latter in a reverse direction, said tongue portion will be drawn through the aperture y(or between the spokes) of the wheel and may then-be latched, to secure the chain in position.

My attaching tool enables the .motorist to secure the chain to the automobile wheel quickly and in a tidy manner.

In the accompanying drawing, in which is s-hown one of various possible embodiments of the several features of the invention, and wherein like reference numerals indicate like parts:

Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of an attaching tool for sectional skid chains, embodying my invention, 1

Fig. 2 represents a side elevational view of a disc wheel, shown fragmentarily, with the attaching tool of my invention shown passed through the aperture thereof and over the top of the tire, showing the tongue portion of the sectional chain secured to the attaching tool, and

Fig. 3 isa similar view showing the attaching f tool, drawn in the direction of the arrow, carrying the tongue portion of the sectional skld chain through the'wheel aperture.

vIl() As shown in Fig. 1, the attaching tool of my invention is preferably made from a single length of wire I, one end of which is reentrantly, upwardly bent, Vto provide a hook 2, and is then wound upon the wire I to provide convolutions 3, lending rigidity to the structure. The other end of the wire is curled in the form of a loop 4 and is then wound upon the wire I to provide convolutions 5, lending rigidity to the structure. 'Ihe wire I may be made of any ferin a rubber or other tube 6 which enables the tool to `'be bent without cutting ones hand and assures the smooth movement of the tool around the tire and through the wheel 9 presently ex-' plained. The loop 4 serves as a handle mal nipulating the tool.

In using the attaching tool of my invention,

the end 2 of the tool is passed through aperture I (or between spokes) of the wheel 8 and over the top of the tire 9, in a reverse direction to 1 that indicated by the arrows in Fig. 2.v The end link I0 of the tongue portion I I of chain I2 is looped over the hook 2 and then by drawing the tool in the direction ofthe arrows, said tongue portion will be drawn through aperturev 1 of the wheel. Then the tool may be removed and end link I0 of the chain latched in latching member I4 of the chain, securing the latter in position on the wheel.

It will be apparent that while I have shown and described my linvention in the preferredv form, many changes and modiflcations'may be 'Y made in the structure disclosed without Vdeparting from the spirit of the invention, defined` in the following claim.

Having thus described my invention, whatIy claim as new and Vdesire to secure by Letters Patent, is: a f

An attaching tool for chains comprising a length of wire of non-resilient material of sumcient inherent rigidity to maintain the position in which it is bent, said wire being bent intoarcuate form when arranged for use and main'- taining said form during manipulation, one end of said wire being bent in the formfof a hook terminating in closely wound convolutions closing the hook, the other end of said wire being in the form of a handle for manipulating the device and terminating in closely wound convolutions, and a tube of resilient material coveri ing the wire intermediate the handle and hook,

said wire being adapted to be passed through a disc-wheel aperture and around the disc-wheel tire by the use of one hand.

CHARLES FISCHER. 

